Friday, May 11, 2018

Jamaica Prime Minister's Attorney's Murder Case Lags Behind



Since October 1st, 2016, a man was murdered by gunshot and stab wounds at the home of attorney, Patrick Bailey. No one seemed to immediately know the victim's identity and the reasons for his overnight stay at the home of the attorney, so chatter around town indicates that people have made their own salacious assumptions. In normal circumstances when a murder occurs, there would be a police investigation into the case. However, this crime was different in that it was committed by a well-known attorney who not only has represented the wealthy, including politicians, but has been considered a part of the upper-class for his own rich standards of living even though a court later gave the go-ahead for him to stand trial for defrauding a client out of millions of dollars. Well after Bailey's doctor advised for the "stressed" Bailey to be on bed-rest after the murder and should not speak to the police, the former police commissioner did not mention why the case had seemed to be going anywhere. Furthermore, neither the former security minister, Robert Montague nor the Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, would respond to inquiries in parliament or elsewhere on the lack of public knowledge on the progress of the murder case. But, since Mr. Bailey is the attorney for the prime minister, this bears no surprise for their non-response that has lead to the suppositions why the case has been dragging. It appears these politicians believe that with silence, and the fact that this victim was not a public figure, memories of the case will somehow be erased from people's minds as time progresses. So, there is an expectation that no one with ever remember that Patrick Bailey's political connections affected the progress of his case. But, the records of the crime will always remain public so when people hear his name, the first impression among the many other negatives, is that a man was murdered at Patrick Bailey's home, and no other persons were present except for Bailey himself.

Death At Prominent Attorney's Home